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Gouveia and Melo with Rui Rio
Or at least “opened the doors a lot.” Rio is not concerned about the growth of arrival – its biggest concern is the growth of discontent.
Mandate of the Gouveia and Melo this year’s presidential elections, Rui Rio supports the admiral for many reasons.
“We need a President of the Republic that is outside the system but not against the system; Let it be for the system, to give democracy the vitality it has lost and needs, ”because“ the democratic regime needs to reform, otherwise it will have the days or years counted ”.
“I want a president who can light a light of hope to the Portuguese. If he is not a free man (with party calls or with other interests), he will not light a light of hope to people,” he continued.
Rio sees in Gouveia and Melo “O only that is capable of locking the discontent, say otherwise, Lock the vote in the arrival”.
In this context, the former PSD leader explained that It is not concerned with the growth of the arrival. Its biggest concern is the growth of discontent in Portugal. “Because it is enough is the son of discontent.”
Marques Mendes… and enough
And therefore, you think Marques Mendes should not be elected president of the Republic. Because, if it is, the arrival is much closer to victory in the following legislative elections.
“If Marques Mendes Winpresident is elected a prototype of what politics is today; It is one of the people who best embodies the virtues and defects of current politics. And that opened the doors a lot to a victory of arrives in the next legislature”He warned.
Why? “Why When you vote for more of the same, you are feeding discontent. It is not lighting the light of hope. If it is more of the same, the probability that discontent continues and even increases – and therefore increases the likelihood of the arrival of the next legislatures, ”he said.
Rui Rio hopes that those unhappy with the regime, at least in the presidential, prefer a “constructive, institutional, thoughtful, sensible” vote. If they vote for André Ventura, “It’s more serious because it’s no longer a protest vote – it’s a vote of Who thinks the arrival will really solve this. And then the country will be in a very complicated situation. ”
Rio, without certainty, said that Gouveia and Melo did not seek the support of the arrival: “I don’t think so. Neither the arrival nor of any party, because it could hurt a bit of the image of independence and free man he has.
Rui Rio left a warning: “What is very destroying democracies and western societies is the facilitism. Lack rigor. ”
